SUNDAY LECTURE | Healing Harm and Hurt

ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life

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Summary of Ordinary Life for April 30, 2023

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Dear Ones -

I continued this week to speak about our having an evolving understanding of and relationship with the mystery we refer to when we use the word “God.” One of the things we have inherited, I think it is part of our religious DNA, is the belief that God is “all-powerful.” When this characteristic is put with the belief that God is also “all-loving,” huge problems occur. If God is both, then why is there so much harm and hurt both in our world and in our personal lives? Decades ago I found some answers to this that were helpful to me in the writings of Leslie Weatherhead, an English preacher and theologian. This is what I built this week’s talk in Ordinary Life on. I called it -

Healing Harm and Hurt

That’s a brief summary of this week’s time in Ordinary Life.

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Be well and much love,

Bill Kerley

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SUNDAY LECTURE | “Three Reasons to be Optimistic about the future of race relations” | Coach michael taylor

ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life

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Summary of Ordinary Life for April 23, 2023

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Dear Ones -

Michael Taylor spoke to us this week in Ordinary Life and his topic was -

Three Reasons to Be Optimistic About Race Relations

There is no text of his talk. The audio and video can be found on the Ordinary Life website as well as the slides he used for his presentation. He was a very engaging and informative as well as thought-provoking speaker. I hope we can have it back some day.

That’s a brief summary of this week’s time in Ordinary Life.

You can find the text of the talk, the presentation slides and the audio version of the talk using the links below.

Our podcast, “In Between,” can be accessed through the Ordinary Life web site.

If you would like to know how to make a contribution to Ordinary Life, click here for video instructions.

Be well and much love,

Bill Kerley

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WEEKLY PODCAST | In Between.0126

If God is getting a makeover in such a way that directly relates to our becoming, then how do we want to remake ourselves? Sometimes when we are in the culture or in our own bodies, it’s hard to see how we need to be remade. As our awareness increases, so does our reactivity…because increasing awareness is painful. It forces us to look at our shadows, some of which Bill talked about last Sunday. Awareness reveals what we do not want to see, and part of our becoming is learning to love even what we do not want to see. Maybe especially what we do not want to see.

I love James Baldwin’s essay “The Creative Process,” and this quote from it feels appropriate:

“Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.”

What needs to be revealed about ourselves to ourselves so that we can grow in freedom and love? So that we can make God over?

Thanks for listening. We are happy to be back!

SUNDAY LECTURE | God Gets a Makeover

ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life

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Summary of Ordinary Life for April 16, 2023

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Dear Ones -

I called what I offered in Ordinary Life this week

“God Gets A Makeover.”

The human psyche has received at least three “ontological shocks” over the course of recent history. They have been labeled: the Copernican Revolution, the Darwinian Discovery, and the Freudian Insight. Carl Jung contributed the understanding of The Shadow to our understanding of the human mind. The Shadow is what allows us to do evil without either seeing it as evil or calling it evil. The Shadows that rule, run, and ruin us are: white, male, folk religion; belief in a flawed creation; and, the belief in redemptive violence. The understanding we have inherited about God is only ten thousand years old. Understanding our evolving universe properly leads to the reality of unconditional love. If we are unconditionally loved, we must love others unconditionally.

That’s a brief summary of this week’s time in Ordinary Life.

You can find the text of the talk, the presentation slides and the audio version of the talk using the links below.

Our podcast, “In Between,” can be accessed through the Ordinary Life web site.

If you would like to know how to make a contribution to Ordinary Life, click here for video instructions.

Be well and much love,

Bill Kerley

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